It's all been leading up to this moment
have this way of beginning sentences when they speak that makes me think they are announcing the conclusion of an Important Study. Their brains must be super laboratories, collecting data, testing every hypothesis, analysing the outcomes with a mental process made immensely powerful through years of experience. And when they speak they are not giving me an answer; they are giving Results and Findings.
If only we could all be so authoritative.
Actually, their secret is simple. I am going to share it with you right now.
Scientists start their sentences with So.
So when we look at the specimen…
So the pathology of the virus…
So the quantum state…
Two letters. One little word. That’s the difference between expressing an opinion and explaining the universe. Look:
So I’d like the vegetarian lasagne and a glass of the house red.
14 April 2008 Jeff Gill
tags: humans,
silly
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